Extreme Uncertainty and Forward‐looking Disclosure Properties

This study investigates the effect of extreme uncertainty on disclosure behaviour by analyzing the quality and quantity of forward‐looking disclosures during the global financial crisis and pre‐crisis periods, controlling for other determinants of disclosure behaviour. Prior research has struggled to distinguish between the quality and quantity dimensions of forward‐looking disclosures. Also, the impact of the recent financial crisis on these forward‐looking disclosure attributes has not yet been examined systematically. We address this gap by exploiting the unique setting of German publicly traded firms. These firms must provide forward‐looking information within their audited financial statements, although relevant regulation is sufficiently vague to allow great variation in the quality, scope and quantity of forward‐looking disclosures actually observed. Using hand‐collected data from 2005 to 2009, we provide evidence of a significantly negative association between crisis and disclosure quality. This finding is robust to several different disclosure quality proxies and regression specifications. In contrast, we find no negative significant relation between crisis and disclosure quantity; rather, there is evidence that reported volume increases during the crisis. Our results are consistent with extreme uncertainty, as occurring during times of crisis, negatively affecting the quality of voluntary disclosures, while firms maintain or increase disclosure quantity, ultimately diluting the information density of forward‐looking disclosures.     

Good disclosure,bad disclosure

We study real-efficiency implications of disclosing public information in a model with multiple dimensions of uncertainty where market prices convey information to a real decision maker. Paradoxically, when disclosure concerns a variable that the real decision maker cares to learn about, disclosure negatively affects price informativeness, and in markets that are effective in aggregating private information, this negative price-informativeness effect can dominate so that better disclosure negatively impacts real efficiency. When disclosure concerns a variable that the real decision maker already knows much about, disclosure always improves price informativeness and real efficiency. Our analysis has important empirical and policy implications for different contexts such as disclosure of stress test information and regulation of credit ratings.     

The Effectiveness of Regulation Fair Disclosure: Evidence from an Emerging Market

The effect of corporate disclosure in emerging markets is not clearly predictable because of the prevalent information leakage prior to disclosure. We empirically examine the effectiveness of Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD) in reducing information asymmetry among equity traders in an emerging market. Specifically, we test whether fair disclosure activity is negatively related to the probability of informed trading (PIN). Multivariate tests on a sample of listed companies in Korea subject to Reg FD reveal the following: (1) more frequent disclosure under Reg FD is related to lower information asymmetry, and (2) this relation differs across the types of disclosure, with the effect of qualitative disclosures on the PIN being weaker than that of quantitative disclosures. Evidence also indicates that the negative association between fair disclosure activities and information asymmetry is more (less) pronounced for firms with poorer (better) information environments where selective information leakage is more (less) likely. The results are robust to sensitivity tests. Our findings have implications for disclosure regulations in emerging markets, given that the existing literature casts doubt on the effectiveness of corporate disclosure in such markets.     

融资约束下企业社会责任信息披露质量与创新持续性

利用2012-2016年我国中小板企业数据,实证研究了不同类型企业社会责任信息披露质量对创新持续性的影响路径。结果显示,对股东、员工的责任信息披露质量能显著缓解融资约束,从而正向影响企业创新持续性;对供应商、客户、消费者、社会和环境的责任信息披露质量只能部分缓解融资约束,但仍正向促进企业创新持续性;国有性质的中小板企业对社会责任信息披露质量更加敏感。以上结论说明,我国中小板企业应注重履行并披露对不同利益相关者的社会责任信息,这对于企业缓解融资约束、维持创新持续性具有积极作用。     

中国上市公司自愿性信息披露的伦理规制研究

上市公司自愿性信息披露的自主性决定了其必须遵循伦理价值的指引及伦理规制的约束。个人职业伦理的丧失、企业组织伦理的混乱及社会伦理环境的缺失导致自愿性信息披露的行为性失真。过程性失真及规则性失真。应建立价值引导机制、治理融合机制、市场约束机制及教育引导机制四大机制,以提高自愿性信息披露的真实性。     

基金会信息公开监管制度的适应性——一个制度经济学视角的分析

依据制度经济学家对适应性的界定,对我国基金会信息公开监管制度的内部和外部适应性进行分析,发现:在内部适应性方面,基金会信息公开监管制度的整体配置具有合理性,但在信息公开的内容要求方面,相关制度安排之间呈现不一致性,制度安排中缺乏必要的救济机制,部分规定的操作性有待加强;在外部适应性方面,基金会信息公开监管制度中应该增加基金会向税务机关进行信息公开的安排,并且随着技术(特别是信息技术与会计技术)的进步,基金会信息公开监管制度可以对指定的媒体、基金会信息公开的时间、信息公开的方式、信息传递等行为规范作出适应性调整.为真正满足利益相关者的需求,基金会信息公开监管制度应该对基金会的注册会计师审计报告以及基金会登记管理机关的复审报告的公开作出安排.     

上市公司非经常性损益信息披露的改进研究

为了保证上市公司的财务信息更客观地反映其财务状况和盈利能力,中国证监会于2008年11月发布公告对2007年的规定进行了修订。通过对100家上市公司财务报表中非经常性损益披露的统计分析,发现新的披露制度仍存在概念界定不完整、披露不统一、与退市政策关联度弱等不足之处,有待于进一步改进。     

国际碳信息披露及其对我国的启示

近年来,碳排放交易（Emission Trade Scheme,ETS）在国外得到了较快的发展。碳排放已成为影响企业经营决策的一个重要因素,同时也对企业的财务状况产生了深远的影响。如何反映和披露这些财务影响成为会计理论研究中的一个热点和难点问题。国外在碳信息披露方面进行了比较深入的探讨,创建了碳信息披露项目（Carbon Disclosure Project,CDP）。CDP披露了低碳战略、碳排放核算等信息,为利益相关者了解企业碳排放信息提供了决策参考。本文通过阐述CDP的主要内容,分析了其存在的主要问题,然后借鉴国际CDP的经验,就如何构建我国的碳信息披露框架进行了探讨。     

论政府财务信息披露的原则

政府财务信息是从价值的角度对政府业务活动及其结果的一种反映,是连接政府与公众的桥梁。政府财务信息包括政府财务会计手段核算和反映的财务结果信息、反映政府财务计划的政府预算信息等,它主要通过政府预算报告和政府财务报告对外披露。政府财务信息披露必须坚持或遵循及时原则、全面原则、适量原则、真实原则、易用原则和平衡原则。     

央行信息披露对通货膨胀预期及其偏差的影响——基于人民银行的信息披露指数分析

基于Svensson(2003)的理论建立了描述中央银行信息披露对公众通货膨胀预期及其偏差影响的理论模型,并参照Heinemann、Ullrich(2005)的研究框架,构建中国2001年1季度～2008年3季度的中央银行信息披露指数,对中央银行信息披露影响我国公众的通货膨胀预期进行了实证分析.结果表明,虽然我国央行的信息披露对公众通货膨胀预期及通货膨胀预期偏差的影响存在着一定的滞后与波动.但央行信息披露工具能够比较有效地引导公众预期.